ZeroMo

jeezaz....if i would have learned japanese as my first language i would have trouble with european languages aswell  
i think speakers are interesting...but would drive cost...the one  for my father is already done. BUT im building another one. Gonna keep you updated here

Simply, to watch anime without subtitles. I also like the culture, I plan on moving there one day.

a week later...im back. Wood is painted and assembled.
Now for some testfitting.
yes i know...the GPU is tiny...but i won't buy some ridiculously priced GPU for an office PC
 
and the for the finished thing:
 
and in its natural habitat
 

 

 
Big Thanks to all of you who stopped and read through this little project. I learned so much and i am already improving the design.
Feel free to leave some comments on what you think should be incorporated in the improved version.
 
Until next time, have a nice day.
Bye

a week later...im back. Wood is painted and assembled.
Now for some testfitting.
yes i know...the GPU is tiny...but i won't buy some ridiculously priced GPU for an office PC
 
and the for the finished thing:
 
and in its natural habitat
 

 

 
Big Thanks to all of you who stopped and read through this little project. I learned so much and i am already improving the design.
Feel free to leave some comments on what you think should be incorporated in the improved version.
 
Until next time, have a nice day.
Bye

a week later...im back. Wood is painted and assembled.
Now for some testfitting.
yes i know...the GPU is tiny...but i won't buy some ridiculously priced GPU for an office PC
 
and the for the finished thing:
 
and in its natural habitat
 

 

 
Big Thanks to all of you who stopped and read through this little project. I learned so much and i am already improving the design.
Feel free to leave some comments on what you think should be incorporated in the improved version.
 
Until next time, have a nice day.
Bye

a week later...im back. Wood is painted and assembled.
Now for some testfitting.
yes i know...the GPU is tiny...but i won't buy some ridiculously priced GPU for an office PC
 
and the for the finished thing:
 
and in its natural habitat
 

 

 
Big Thanks to all of you who stopped and read through this little project. I learned so much and i am already improving the design.
Feel free to leave some comments on what you think should be incorporated in the improved version.
 
Until next time, have a nice day.
Bye

i had to have a name for it...and i kinda like japanese...so why not
 

Hello there Random Stranger,
Welcome to my world,
 
well..
now that I got that out of my system, welcome to my new project.
 
My father wanted a new PC and I, as the techsavy guy in our family, offered to build him one. 
And as a special treat...decided to build him a custom case...just because i can.
 
Because i know that my father is a little bit old fashioned i decided to build him a retro themed case.
Inspiration was drawn from old radios and tv's.
The two main materials would be copper and wood, dark wood since wood tends to darken over time.
and it looks nice with copper.
 
The next premise was: it should be located on the desk to make it easily accesible...wich ties in with the first: should look nice since it had to be placed on the desk.
further requirements:
DVD Drive (so annoying)
 
Further Hardwware isnt much to mention since he gave me a pretty tight budget...
 
so i went with a
Pentium G4600 2C/4T
MSI B250I Pro
8 GB DDR4 Value RAM (holy fuck that shit got expensive)
some old Nvidia GT i still had (thanks to crypto that went through the roof right at the start of this build)
bequiet PSU
some DVD drive
 
 
so i got to work and started to visualise what i had in mind.
 
Here is a first peek using SketchUp (my fathers work area)


where its black there should be copper...
 
 
Those "renderings" convinced my father and i went to work.
Sadly there aren't many pictures as some got lost...don't know why though
 
after a couple of router passes i had all the 45 degree angles kinda right...
that was one pain in the back to do those...especially with an unprecise routerbit.

yeah.,...i made that picture with my smartphone instead of the DSLR...cant believe i did that
 
 

test fitting and adjustments
 
and yeah...its not copper...as it turns out i was too ambitious about that...couldn't do it myself as i dont have neither the tools nor the skills to do so. But i found a company which specializes
in cutting sheet metal according to CAD drawings (even one at a time).
Guess you need a little bit of luck too.
Now i have just to paint that.
 
Aaaand TADAAAAAA!!!!!
 

This looks way nicer than i feared it might look.
 
As you might have noticed...the wood is actually playwood...for the same reason the copper is not really copper. Sadly i dont have a CNC so i had to outsource the wood cutting as well.
At least the openings i cut myself. (pretty lousy if one might notice)
But as nobody will ever see the inside or the backside....since it will be on my fathers desk for the next 5 years....
Don't care 
 
Thats it for now.
Thanks for reading along.
 
 
 

Hello there Random Stranger,
Welcome to my world,
 
well..
now that I got that out of my system, welcome to my new project.
 
My father wanted a new PC and I, as the techsavy guy in our family, offered to build him one. 
And as a special treat...decided to build him a custom case...just because i can.
 
Because i know that my father is a little bit old fashioned i decided to build him a retro themed case.
Inspiration was drawn from old radios and tv's.
The two main materials would be copper and wood, dark wood since wood tends to darken over time.
and it looks nice with copper.
 
The next premise was: it should be located on the desk to make it easily accesible...wich ties in with the first: should look nice since it had to be placed on the desk.
further requirements:
DVD Drive (so annoying)
 
Further Hardwware isnt much to mention since he gave me a pretty tight budget...
 
so i went with a
Pentium G4600 2C/4T
MSI B250I Pro
8 GB DDR4 Value RAM (holy fuck that shit got expensive)
some old Nvidia GT i still had (thanks to crypto that went through the roof right at the start of this build)
bequiet PSU
some DVD drive
 
 
so i got to work and started to visualise what i had in mind.
 
Here is a first peek using SketchUp (my fathers work area)


where its black there should be copper...
 
 
Those "renderings" convinced my father and i went to work.
Sadly there aren't many pictures as some got lost...don't know why though
 
after a couple of router passes i had all the 45 degree angles kinda right...
that was one pain in the back to do those...especially with an unprecise routerbit.

yeah.,...i made that picture with my smartphone instead of the DSLR...cant believe i did that
 
 

test fitting and adjustments
 
and yeah...its not copper...as it turns out i was too ambitious about that...couldn't do it myself as i dont have neither the tools nor the skills to do so. But i found a company which specializes
in cutting sheet metal according to CAD drawings (even one at a time).
Guess you need a little bit of luck too.
Now i have just to paint that.
 
Aaaand TADAAAAAA!!!!!
 

This looks way nicer than i feared it might look.
 
As you might have noticed...the wood is actually playwood...for the same reason the copper is not really copper. Sadly i dont have a CNC so i had to outsource the wood cutting as well.
At least the openings i cut myself. (pretty lousy if one might notice)
But as nobody will ever see the inside or the backside....since it will be on my fathers desk for the next 5 years....
Don't care 
 
Thats it for now.
Thanks for reading along.
 
 
 

ｊａｐａｎｅｓｅis the hardest

I mean, he might not even need to have airflow in and out of the case.. he is using a pentium which even at full load wont be that bad. Just full enclose it.

Hello there Random Stranger,
Welcome to my world,
 
well..
now that I got that out of my system, welcome to my new project.
 
My father wanted a new PC and I, as the techsavy guy in our family, offered to build him one. 
And as a special treat...decided to build him a custom case...just because i can.
 
Because i know that my father is a little bit old fashioned i decided to build him a retro themed case.
Inspiration was drawn from old radios and tv's.
The two main materials would be copper and wood, dark wood since wood tends to darken over time.
and it looks nice with copper.
 
The next premise was: it should be located on the desk to make it easily accesible...wich ties in with the first: should look nice since it had to be placed on the desk.
further requirements:
DVD Drive (so annoying)
 
Further Hardwware isnt much to mention since he gave me a pretty tight budget...
 
so i went with a
Pentium G4600 2C/4T
MSI B250I Pro
8 GB DDR4 Value RAM (holy fuck that shit got expensive)
some old Nvidia GT i still had (thanks to crypto that went through the roof right at the start of this build)
bequiet PSU
some DVD drive
 
 
so i got to work and started to visualise what i had in mind.
 
Here is a first peek using SketchUp (my fathers work area)


where its black there should be copper...
 
 
Those "renderings" convinced my father and i went to work.
Sadly there aren't many pictures as some got lost...don't know why though
 
after a couple of router passes i had all the 45 degree angles kinda right...
that was one pain in the back to do those...especially with an unprecise routerbit.

yeah.,...i made that picture with my smartphone instead of the DSLR...cant believe i did that
 
 

test fitting and adjustments
 
and yeah...its not copper...as it turns out i was too ambitious about that...couldn't do it myself as i dont have neither the tools nor the skills to do so. But i found a company which specializes
in cutting sheet metal according to CAD drawings (even one at a time).
Guess you need a little bit of luck too.
Now i have just to paint that.
 
Aaaand TADAAAAAA!!!!!
 

This looks way nicer than i feared it might look.
 
As you might have noticed...the wood is actually playwood...for the same reason the copper is not really copper. Sadly i dont have a CNC so i had to outsource the wood cutting as well.
At least the openings i cut myself. (pretty lousy if one might notice)
But as nobody will ever see the inside or the backside....since it will be on my fathers desk for the next 5 years....
Don't care 
 
Thats it for now.
Thanks for reading along.
 
 
 

Hello there Random Stranger,
Welcome to my world,
 
well..
now that I got that out of my system, welcome to my new project.
 
My father wanted a new PC and I, as the techsavy guy in our family, offered to build him one. 
And as a special treat...decided to build him a custom case...just because i can.
 
Because i know that my father is a little bit old fashioned i decided to build him a retro themed case.
Inspiration was drawn from old radios and tv's.
The two main materials would be copper and wood, dark wood since wood tends to darken over time.
and it looks nice with copper.
 
The next premise was: it should be located on the desk to make it easily accesible...wich ties in with the first: should look nice since it had to be placed on the desk.
further requirements:
DVD Drive (so annoying)
 
Further Hardwware isnt much to mention since he gave me a pretty tight budget...
 
so i went with a
Pentium G4600 2C/4T
MSI B250I Pro
8 GB DDR4 Value RAM (holy fuck that shit got expensive)
some old Nvidia GT i still had (thanks to crypto that went through the roof right at the start of this build)
bequiet PSU
some DVD drive
 
 
so i got to work and started to visualise what i had in mind.
 
Here is a first peek using SketchUp (my fathers work area)


where its black there should be copper...
 
 
Those "renderings" convinced my father and i went to work.
Sadly there aren't many pictures as some got lost...don't know why though
 
after a couple of router passes i had all the 45 degree angles kinda right...
that was one pain in the back to do those...especially with an unprecise routerbit.

yeah.,...i made that picture with my smartphone instead of the DSLR...cant believe i did that
 
 

test fitting and adjustments
 
and yeah...its not copper...as it turns out i was too ambitious about that...couldn't do it myself as i dont have neither the tools nor the skills to do so. But i found a company which specializes
in cutting sheet metal according to CAD drawings (even one at a time).
Guess you need a little bit of luck too.
Now i have just to paint that.
 
Aaaand TADAAAAAA!!!!!
 

This looks way nicer than i feared it might look.
 
As you might have noticed...the wood is actually playwood...for the same reason the copper is not really copper. Sadly i dont have a CNC so i had to outsource the wood cutting as well.
At least the openings i cut myself. (pretty lousy if one might notice)
But as nobody will ever see the inside or the backside....since it will be on my fathers desk for the next 5 years....
Don't care 
 
Thats it for now.
Thanks for reading along.
 
 
 

A tip for if you didn't know yet: Windows 10 includes an app called "quick assist" which doesn't need to be set up or anything. While in quick assist you could also remotely install Teamviewer if needed. 

Anything that stops me having to drive long distances to resize a window for the elderly is a good tip, thanks!

2 simple solutions:
 
1. Ask them to use Windows 10 on trial bases.
2. Skylake is fast enough,

You can troubleshoot most of the problems with Team Viewer like softwares since they will be OS related and not hardware.
 
Anyway, it will work on Kaby Lake. You might have the same issues as a new hardware but the OS it's much likely gonna work smooth.

Hey there,
Thanks for stepping by.

A few weeks ago, I saw a
picture of some awesome wallmounted pc and 
decided:
Yeah...imma build something like this.
 
After maybe three weeks of sketching and figuring it
had evolved into a "simple" case...I dont know why it ended up beeing what it is now but
it just somehow did.
 
Honestly speaking it isn't finished yet so if you want to come along with my experiment I would be 
quite pleased.
 
First of all, I am a 23 year old student with literally no workshop or tools...so everything was build from scratch...
I had to buy all the tools like a drill, a saw, screwdrivers and so on.
But i did not waver and soldiered on.
 
Here she is...with my...case...and cable managment from my first pc
(Specs are listed on my profile)
 

Well...i know...its a little bit of an eyesore...but thats why i decided to build my own   (because screw logic )
 
 

The final sketch looked like this...(Sorry for no fancy renderings or gooogle sketchup models)
 
it kind of evolved during the building process but i had to do some adjustments and dumping the two loop plan was neccessary...would be overkill anyway for this setup
And now the fun started. I found a company which would cut all my pieces out of wood and acrylic and send it to me for i had no big saw and i wanted it to be as precise as possible.
I ordered some watercooling parts too because i needed everything in front of me for the dimensions and visualisation
 

The wooden pieces arrived
Why wood you may, completely correct ask, because it is the most affordable material and the one I am most comfortable working with.
 

getting an idea of how it is going to look
 
Then i went on and throwed a whole lot of money around to get the tools and all the little things i needed..
and instantly had a broken drill which i sent back to get it replaced, what left me playing with the stuff i already had laying around.
 

like those LTT Edition Noctua NF F12
 
 

aaaand another test fit
 
After recieving another ton of stuff and the drill, I began to work. It was a real challenge do do this in my room...
because i had nowhere else to go but it somhow worked...not brilliantly but it did the trick.
 
After that I made the commitment that my rig is not going to see another case until this thing is finished, by ripping out all the good stuff while waiting for additional deliveries
 

There it is...the crappy thing...never going to see the light of day
 
 
Now she sits on my desk waiting for a new case. 

 
Without further ado I went back to work and did a lot of test fitting, drilling and sawing.
 
My "workshop"

 
 
It was probably at this point where i dumped the second loop  because it would be to much of a hassle to hardpipe the whole thing with two loops and simply not justified especially looking at my bankaccount.
 



Drilling and rasping
 

my little touch of OCD
 

First steps and little bit of progress
 

more progress...
 
with this kind of results showing i was fired up to get it done.
 

firing her up for the first time with parts of the new case
 

now it is slowly becoming what i had invisioned it to be (not sure about the grammar here )
 

that was the point where she got her name
she is just too goddam big...but yeah...too late to stop now
 

trying to get some "glamshots"...not really working with a smartphone camera 
 
now the whole assembling and disassembling was a pain in the neck...and in the back...

 
 
and there where times where I simply was too dumb/lazy to read thoroughly what was required..like that time when I went full retard and bought a holesaw just to realize i couldnt use it with my drill because I needed a standing drill...like one of those big ones...well i did what was needed and pulled it of with my bare hands...damn that hurt

for a little bit of ventilation for the graphics card and the motherboard
 
time to go crazy with filler and let all the screws and screwups disapear

and for a smooth finish after sanding and before vinyl wrapping.
 
or i ordered the carbon vinyl...aaaand overdid it because it was in the middle of the night...now i have enough of that shit to cover my whole room...maybe not really but you get the point, do you.

thats like 9 squaremeters of vinyl...
  with that much material at disposal i went full moron on the vinyl wrapping but surprisingly never screwed up.
 


 
some pieces...and then
 
*BOOM* assemled and running...geezuz that blue RAM hurts my eyes...thats what you get for changing the coloursceme in the middle of the build

 
Well folks...thanks for coming along...and hopefully sticking around as this is still far from finished...she needs the watercooling loop finished...she needs a cablemod and fancy cablemanagment. 
The aluminum needs to be brushed and then reassembled...the bottom and the top need to be finished as well as replacing the RAM with somthing like dominator Platinum or colouring it...
and finally an GPU upgrade which is going to be watecooled as  I'm not going to do so with this GPU because i don't want to spend
120 bucks for watercooling a 970 when i know I'm going to upgrade it anyway with the upcoming pascal/polaris release. I forgot the red LED lighting.
 
I'll try to update this Build Log every time when there is progress.
 
 
 
Hello there,
 
nearly one month later I am back with a little more done to her.
 
first of all I helped myself with the stupid holesaw to drill two holes into the bottom plate for some fans. But this time I figured a way to do the job without 
killing my hands.

worked way better and easier...and ignore the markings...they where wrong and I was to lazy to erase them.
 


there they are...mounted and ready to go.
 
at this point in time my desk looks like this.

WAN Show ftw
 
With the rest of the watercooling stuff on the way I gave the aluminium brackets a brushed finish

brushed vs factory look                                                                                                       all ready and looking fine
 
and the top plate with the holes for the four radiator fans.


Topplate wrapped and assembled
 
Yeiiiii finally the  the Watercoolingstuff is complete and ready for my first ever watercooling expirience....an yes i know even Linus said that one should not start with a hard tubing loop but this build
simply isn't going to look good with soft tubing and my bit of OCD didnt allow it either.
With that in mind i decided to go for gold and try

Btw...this picture was taken after the whole loop was done so there are a few fittings and tubes missing 
 
I started with some easy bends to get used to the whole thing and did good for the first bends of my life and got really excited.

There where some screwups at first but i ignored them mostly because they where only hideous but not damaged or bent in the wrong way (like the one leading into the pump)
 
 
The following part probably needs a little bit of explanation. I was just recently enlightened by some videos i didnt watch before...that it doesn't matter in which order your components are located in the loop.
My loop was designed with the thought that it would be good if the coolant goes through a radiator before entering the next component...like this:
...Rad -> CPU -> Rad ->  GPU...
which hopefully explains the crazy bends i did there.
 
Without further ado...
lets go completely crazy with the tubing!

yeah i know...they are not the prettiest and straightest bends in the world but i am completely satisfied with how the turned out.
remeber....this is my first watercooled build...and at some point in time i will redo some of the bends but for now they suffice...
and i kinda like the unrefined look remembering me that nothing is perfect from the start.
 
Time to install the CPU block and do the rest of the loop...yeah...i ran out of money and wasnt able to fit the GPU block in my budget...
aaaand i couldnt wait 

         old cooler off ...                                                cleaning                                    new cooler on...dat excitement
 
now thats a look on every bend i had to do and every fitting that went into this stupid thing...fittings can really blow your budget

thats actually a lot...sheesh...my poor wallet
 

now filling her up for the first time...(that sounds a little bit wrong..
anyway)
 
aaaand there goes the red....of course i let her run for more than a day to look for leaks...(it isn't getting any better isn't it )

 
 
thats looking good i think...have some more pictures (i tried to do some kind of fancy pro looking photos )
 

 

ah...that inlet bend on the right of the CPU is getting reworked as soon as the GPU is getting its treatment.
 
now the whole Deskemperess in her glory...

 
 
Well folks...thanks again for checking out my build...this is it...at least for the time being because i really need to stop spending the money i had planned for my food...
no it is not that aweful but I really dont have enough to include the GPU at the moment but it'll happen in a little bit...meaning like one maybe two months.
Until then i will paint the RAM if i have the time and do some LED lighting. And if I am really bored...the cabelsleeving. 
Geezuz dat blue RAM looks super dumb...well i have to deal with it.
 
The best part of the whole thing is...every time i walk into my room I really enjoy the accomplishment standing there on my desk in all her glory.
And I really like her with all the mistakes, being big or small, I made because it is the first thing in a while i had the energy to finish.
 
And thanks for the kind words after the first part was done...that kept me going.
See you another time.
 
................
 
2017
 
Hey again...it's been  a while...geez its been nearly a year.
I thought I'd update the buildlog.
 
I did different things to my Red Queen.
New Hardware were the red RAM Sticks (Corsair Dominator 16 GB)
God they look good...but they are a little on the Orange side but im fine with it for now.
Coolermaster V850 PSU 
Bitfenix Custom Red cables
aand the goodness...
finally the EK waterblock for my GPU.
 
But first she got a new place to sit on and some lighting

 
few weeks later i started (what i thought would be the) final stage of building.
 
I added some ventilation holes because i had problems with the airtemperatures inside the case.
(Still learning )
 

 
Cablemanagment...well i tried

 
Looook now with new and fresh fluid

 
Well until the stupid Fluid changed color again...so i cleaned the whole system and tried my luck with pastel coolant from EK because i thought it should work as the Coolingparts are nearly all from EK.
 
disassembling and cleaning 

 
aaaaaaaaand there she is back together
 

That was last year....
 
the sad thing is...the fluids are changing color again...
and i have no idea whats wrong.
 
Better pictures following after another cleaning and fluid change.
 
well then...see you soon

Two pictures i forgot to add
 

 
 

Currently in contact with EKWB Support...going to report how it is going.
 

Hey there,
Thanks for stepping by.

A few weeks ago, I saw a
picture of some awesome wallmounted pc and 
decided:
Yeah...imma build something like this.
 
After maybe three weeks of sketching and figuring it
had evolved into a "simple" case...I dont know why it ended up beeing what it is now but
it just somehow did.
 
Honestly speaking it isn't finished yet so if you want to come along with my experiment I would be 
quite pleased.
 
First of all, I am a 23 year old student with literally no workshop or tools...so everything was build from scratch...
I had to buy all the tools like a drill, a saw, screwdrivers and so on.
But i did not waver and soldiered on.
 
Here she is...with my...case...and cable managment from my first pc
(Specs are listed on my profile)
 

Well...i know...its a little bit of an eyesore...but thats why i decided to build my own   (because screw logic )
 
 

The final sketch looked like this...(Sorry for no fancy renderings or gooogle sketchup models)
 
it kind of evolved during the building process but i had to do some adjustments and dumping the two loop plan was neccessary...would be overkill anyway for this setup
And now the fun started. I found a company which would cut all my pieces out of wood and acrylic and send it to me for i had no big saw and i wanted it to be as precise as possible.
I ordered some watercooling parts too because i needed everything in front of me for the dimensions and visualisation
 

The wooden pieces arrived
Why wood you may, completely correct ask, because it is the most affordable material and the one I am most comfortable working with.
 

getting an idea of how it is going to look
 
Then i went on and throwed a whole lot of money around to get the tools and all the little things i needed..
and instantly had a broken drill which i sent back to get it replaced, what left me playing with the stuff i already had laying around.
 

like those LTT Edition Noctua NF F12
 
 

aaaand another test fit
 
After recieving another ton of stuff and the drill, I began to work. It was a real challenge do do this in my room...
because i had nowhere else to go but it somhow worked...not brilliantly but it did the trick.
 
After that I made the commitment that my rig is not going to see another case until this thing is finished, by ripping out all the good stuff while waiting for additional deliveries
 

There it is...the crappy thing...never going to see the light of day
 
 
Now she sits on my desk waiting for a new case. 

 
Without further ado I went back to work and did a lot of test fitting, drilling and sawing.
 
My "workshop"

 
 
It was probably at this point where i dumped the second loop  because it would be to much of a hassle to hardpipe the whole thing with two loops and simply not justified especially looking at my bankaccount.
 



Drilling and rasping
 

my little touch of OCD
 

First steps and little bit of progress
 

more progress...
 
with this kind of results showing i was fired up to get it done.
 

firing her up for the first time with parts of the new case
 

now it is slowly becoming what i had invisioned it to be (not sure about the grammar here )
 

that was the point where she got her name
she is just too goddam big...but yeah...too late to stop now
 

trying to get some "glamshots"...not really working with a smartphone camera 
 
now the whole assembling and disassembling was a pain in the neck...and in the back...

 
 
and there where times where I simply was too dumb/lazy to read thoroughly what was required..like that time when I went full retard and bought a holesaw just to realize i couldnt use it with my drill because I needed a standing drill...like one of those big ones...well i did what was needed and pulled it of with my bare hands...damn that hurt

for a little bit of ventilation for the graphics card and the motherboard
 
time to go crazy with filler and let all the screws and screwups disapear

and for a smooth finish after sanding and before vinyl wrapping.
 
or i ordered the carbon vinyl...aaaand overdid it because it was in the middle of the night...now i have enough of that shit to cover my whole room...maybe not really but you get the point, do you.

thats like 9 squaremeters of vinyl...
  with that much material at disposal i went full moron on the vinyl wrapping but surprisingly never screwed up.
 


 
some pieces...and then
 
*BOOM* assemled and running...geezuz that blue RAM hurts my eyes...thats what you get for changing the coloursceme in the middle of the build

 
Well folks...thanks for coming along...and hopefully sticking around as this is still far from finished...she needs the watercooling loop finished...she needs a cablemod and fancy cablemanagment. 
The aluminum needs to be brushed and then reassembled...the bottom and the top need to be finished as well as replacing the RAM with somthing like dominator Platinum or colouring it...
and finally an GPU upgrade which is going to be watecooled as  I'm not going to do so with this GPU because i don't want to spend
120 bucks for watercooling a 970 when i know I'm going to upgrade it anyway with the upcoming pascal/polaris release. I forgot the red LED lighting.
 
I'll try to update this Build Log every time when there is progress.
 
 
 
Hello there,
 
nearly one month later I am back with a little more done to her.
 
first of all I helped myself with the stupid holesaw to drill two holes into the bottom plate for some fans. But this time I figured a way to do the job without 
killing my hands.

worked way better and easier...and ignore the markings...they where wrong and I was to lazy to erase them.
 


there they are...mounted and ready to go.
 
at this point in time my desk looks like this.

WAN Show ftw
 
With the rest of the watercooling stuff on the way I gave the aluminium brackets a brushed finish

brushed vs factory look                                                                                                       all ready and looking fine
 
and the top plate with the holes for the four radiator fans.


Topplate wrapped and assembled
 
Yeiiiii finally the  the Watercoolingstuff is complete and ready for my first ever watercooling expirience....an yes i know even Linus said that one should not start with a hard tubing loop but this build
simply isn't going to look good with soft tubing and my bit of OCD didnt allow it either.
With that in mind i decided to go for gold and try

Btw...this picture was taken after the whole loop was done so there are a few fittings and tubes missing 
 
I started with some easy bends to get used to the whole thing and did good for the first bends of my life and got really excited.

There where some screwups at first but i ignored them mostly because they where only hideous but not damaged or bent in the wrong way (like the one leading into the pump)
 
 
The following part probably needs a little bit of explanation. I was just recently enlightened by some videos i didnt watch before...that it doesn't matter in which order your components are located in the loop.
My loop was designed with the thought that it would be good if the coolant goes through a radiator before entering the next component...like this:
...Rad -> CPU -> Rad ->  GPU...
which hopefully explains the crazy bends i did there.
 
Without further ado...
lets go completely crazy with the tubing!

yeah i know...they are not the prettiest and straightest bends in the world but i am completely satisfied with how the turned out.
remeber....this is my first watercooled build...and at some point in time i will redo some of the bends but for now they suffice...
and i kinda like the unrefined look remembering me that nothing is perfect from the start.
 
Time to install the CPU block and do the rest of the loop...yeah...i ran out of money and wasnt able to fit the GPU block in my budget...
aaaand i couldnt wait 

         old cooler off ...                                                cleaning                                    new cooler on...dat excitement
 
now thats a look on every bend i had to do and every fitting that went into this stupid thing...fittings can really blow your budget

thats actually a lot...sheesh...my poor wallet
 

now filling her up for the first time...(that sounds a little bit wrong..
anyway)
 
aaaand there goes the red....of course i let her run for more than a day to look for leaks...(it isn't getting any better isn't it )

 
 
thats looking good i think...have some more pictures (i tried to do some kind of fancy pro looking photos )
 

 

ah...that inlet bend on the right of the CPU is getting reworked as soon as the GPU is getting its treatment.
 
now the whole Deskemperess in her glory...

 
 
Well folks...thanks again for checking out my build...this is it...at least for the time being because i really need to stop spending the money i had planned for my food...
no it is not that aweful but I really dont have enough to include the GPU at the moment but it'll happen in a little bit...meaning like one maybe two months.
Until then i will paint the RAM if i have the time and do some LED lighting. And if I am really bored...the cabelsleeving. 
Geezuz dat blue RAM looks super dumb...well i have to deal with it.
 
The best part of the whole thing is...every time i walk into my room I really enjoy the accomplishment standing there on my desk in all her glory.
And I really like her with all the mistakes, being big or small, I made because it is the first thing in a while i had the energy to finish.
 
And thanks for the kind words after the first part was done...that kept me going.
See you another time.
 
................
 
2017
 
Hey again...it's been  a while...geez its been nearly a year.
I thought I'd update the buildlog.
 
I did different things to my Red Queen.
New Hardware were the red RAM Sticks (Corsair Dominator 16 GB)
God they look good...but they are a little on the Orange side but im fine with it for now.
Coolermaster V850 PSU 
Bitfenix Custom Red cables
aand the goodness...
finally the EK waterblock for my GPU.
 
But first she got a new place to sit on and some lighting

 
few weeks later i started (what i thought would be the) final stage of building.
 
I added some ventilation holes because i had problems with the airtemperatures inside the case.
(Still learning )
 

 
Cablemanagment...well i tried

 
Looook now with new and fresh fluid

 
Well until the stupid Fluid changed color again...so i cleaned the whole system and tried my luck with pastel coolant from EK because i thought it should work as the Coolingparts are nearly all from EK.
 
disassembling and cleaning 

 
aaaaaaaaand there she is back together
 

That was last year....
 
the sad thing is...the fluids are changing color again...
and i have no idea whats wrong.
 
Better pictures following after another cleaning and fluid change.
 
well then...see you soon

Hey there,
Thanks for stepping by.

A few weeks ago, I saw a
picture of some awesome wallmounted pc and 
decided:
Yeah...imma build something like this.
 
After maybe three weeks of sketching and figuring it
had evolved into a "simple" case...I dont know why it ended up beeing what it is now but
it just somehow did.
 
Honestly speaking it isn't finished yet so if you want to come along with my experiment I would be 
quite pleased.
 
First of all, I am a 23 year old student with literally no workshop or tools...so everything was build from scratch...
I had to buy all the tools like a drill, a saw, screwdrivers and so on.
But i did not waver and soldiered on.
 
Here she is...with my...case...and cable managment from my first pc
(Specs are listed on my profile)
 

Well...i know...its a little bit of an eyesore...but thats why i decided to build my own   (because screw logic )
 
 

The final sketch looked like this...(Sorry for no fancy renderings or gooogle sketchup models)
 
it kind of evolved during the building process but i had to do some adjustments and dumping the two loop plan was neccessary...would be overkill anyway for this setup
And now the fun started. I found a company which would cut all my pieces out of wood and acrylic and send it to me for i had no big saw and i wanted it to be as precise as possible.
I ordered some watercooling parts too because i needed everything in front of me for the dimensions and visualisation
 

The wooden pieces arrived
Why wood you may, completely correct ask, because it is the most affordable material and the one I am most comfortable working with.
 

getting an idea of how it is going to look
 
Then i went on and throwed a whole lot of money around to get the tools and all the little things i needed..
and instantly had a broken drill which i sent back to get it replaced, what left me playing with the stuff i already had laying around.
 

like those LTT Edition Noctua NF F12
 
 

aaaand another test fit
 
After recieving another ton of stuff and the drill, I began to work. It was a real challenge do do this in my room...
because i had nowhere else to go but it somhow worked...not brilliantly but it did the trick.
 
After that I made the commitment that my rig is not going to see another case until this thing is finished, by ripping out all the good stuff while waiting for additional deliveries
 

There it is...the crappy thing...never going to see the light of day
 
 
Now she sits on my desk waiting for a new case. 

 
Without further ado I went back to work and did a lot of test fitting, drilling and sawing.
 
My "workshop"

 
 
It was probably at this point where i dumped the second loop  because it would be to much of a hassle to hardpipe the whole thing with two loops and simply not justified especially looking at my bankaccount.
 



Drilling and rasping
 

my little touch of OCD
 

First steps and little bit of progress
 

more progress...
 
with this kind of results showing i was fired up to get it done.
 

firing her up for the first time with parts of the new case
 

now it is slowly becoming what i had invisioned it to be (not sure about the grammar here )
 

that was the point where she got her name
she is just too goddam big...but yeah...too late to stop now
 

trying to get some "glamshots"...not really working with a smartphone camera 
 
now the whole assembling and disassembling was a pain in the neck...and in the back...

 
 
and there where times where I simply was too dumb/lazy to read thoroughly what was required..like that time when I went full retard and bought a holesaw just to realize i couldnt use it with my drill because I needed a standing drill...like one of those big ones...well i did what was needed and pulled it of with my bare hands...damn that hurt

for a little bit of ventilation for the graphics card and the motherboard
 
time to go crazy with filler and let all the screws and screwups disapear

and for a smooth finish after sanding and before vinyl wrapping.
 
or i ordered the carbon vinyl...aaaand overdid it because it was in the middle of the night...now i have enough of that shit to cover my whole room...maybe not really but you get the point, do you.

thats like 9 squaremeters of vinyl...
  with that much material at disposal i went full moron on the vinyl wrapping but surprisingly never screwed up.
 


 
some pieces...and then
 
*BOOM* assemled and running...geezuz that blue RAM hurts my eyes...thats what you get for changing the coloursceme in the middle of the build

 
Well folks...thanks for coming along...and hopefully sticking around as this is still far from finished...she needs the watercooling loop finished...she needs a cablemod and fancy cablemanagment. 
The aluminum needs to be brushed and then reassembled...the bottom and the top need to be finished as well as replacing the RAM with somthing like dominator Platinum or colouring it...
and finally an GPU upgrade which is going to be watecooled as  I'm not going to do so with this GPU because i don't want to spend
120 bucks for watercooling a 970 when i know I'm going to upgrade it anyway with the upcoming pascal/polaris release. I forgot the red LED lighting.
 
I'll try to update this Build Log every time when there is progress.
 
 
 
Hello there,
 
nearly one month later I am back with a little more done to her.
 
first of all I helped myself with the stupid holesaw to drill two holes into the bottom plate for some fans. But this time I figured a way to do the job without 
killing my hands.

worked way better and easier...and ignore the markings...they where wrong and I was to lazy to erase them.
 


there they are...mounted and ready to go.
 
at this point in time my desk looks like this.

WAN Show ftw
 
With the rest of the watercooling stuff on the way I gave the aluminium brackets a brushed finish

brushed vs factory look                                                                                                       all ready and looking fine
 
and the top plate with the holes for the four radiator fans.


Topplate wrapped and assembled
 
Yeiiiii finally the  the Watercoolingstuff is complete and ready for my first ever watercooling expirience....an yes i know even Linus said that one should not start with a hard tubing loop but this build
simply isn't going to look good with soft tubing and my bit of OCD didnt allow it either.
With that in mind i decided to go for gold and try

Btw...this picture was taken after the whole loop was done so there are a few fittings and tubes missing 
 
I started with some easy bends to get used to the whole thing and did good for the first bends of my life and got really excited.

There where some screwups at first but i ignored them mostly because they where only hideous but not damaged or bent in the wrong way (like the one leading into the pump)
 
 
The following part probably needs a little bit of explanation. I was just recently enlightened by some videos i didnt watch before...that it doesn't matter in which order your components are located in the loop.
My loop was designed with the thought that it would be good if the coolant goes through a radiator before entering the next component...like this:
...Rad -> CPU -> Rad ->  GPU...
which hopefully explains the crazy bends i did there.
 
Without further ado...
lets go completely crazy with the tubing!

yeah i know...they are not the prettiest and straightest bends in the world but i am completely satisfied with how the turned out.
remeber....this is my first watercooled build...and at some point in time i will redo some of the bends but for now they suffice...
and i kinda like the unrefined look remembering me that nothing is perfect from the start.
 
Time to install the CPU block and do the rest of the loop...yeah...i ran out of money and wasnt able to fit the GPU block in my budget...
aaaand i couldnt wait 

         old cooler off ...                                                cleaning                                    new cooler on...dat excitement
 
now thats a look on every bend i had to do and every fitting that went into this stupid thing...fittings can really blow your budget

thats actually a lot...sheesh...my poor wallet
 

now filling her up for the first time...(that sounds a little bit wrong..
anyway)
 
aaaand there goes the red....of course i let her run for more than a day to look for leaks...(it isn't getting any better isn't it )

 
 
thats looking good i think...have some more pictures (i tried to do some kind of fancy pro looking photos )
 

 

ah...that inlet bend on the right of the CPU is getting reworked as soon as the GPU is getting its treatment.
 
now the whole Deskemperess in her glory...

 
 
Well folks...thanks again for checking out my build...this is it...at least for the time being because i really need to stop spending the money i had planned for my food...
no it is not that aweful but I really dont have enough to include the GPU at the moment but it'll happen in a little bit...meaning like one maybe two months.
Until then i will paint the RAM if i have the time and do some LED lighting. And if I am really bored...the cabelsleeving. 
Geezuz dat blue RAM looks super dumb...well i have to deal with it.
 
The best part of the whole thing is...every time i walk into my room I really enjoy the accomplishment standing there on my desk in all her glory.
And I really like her with all the mistakes, being big or small, I made because it is the first thing in a while i had the energy to finish.
 
And thanks for the kind words after the first part was done...that kept me going.
See you another time.
 
................
 
2017
 
Hey again...it's been  a while...geez its been nearly a year.
I thought I'd update the buildlog.
 
I did different things to my Red Queen.
New Hardware were the red RAM Sticks (Corsair Dominator 16 GB)
God they look good...but they are a little on the Orange side but im fine with it for now.
Coolermaster V850 PSU 
Bitfenix Custom Red cables
aand the goodness...
finally the EK waterblock for my GPU.
 
But first she got a new place to sit on and some lighting

 
few weeks later i started (what i thought would be the) final stage of building.
 
I added some ventilation holes because i had problems with the airtemperatures inside the case.
(Still learning )
 

 
Cablemanagment...well i tried

 
Looook now with new and fresh fluid

 
Well until the stupid Fluid changed color again...so i cleaned the whole system and tried my luck with pastel coolant from EK because i thought it should work as the Coolingparts are nearly all from EK.
 
disassembling and cleaning 

 
aaaaaaaaand there she is back together
 

That was last year....
 
the sad thing is...the fluids are changing color again...
and i have no idea whats wrong.
 
Better pictures following after another cleaning and fluid change.
 
well then...see you soon

I forgot one picture...
 

she is really big isn't she?

 

Hey there,
Thanks for stepping by.

A few weeks ago, I saw a
picture of some awesome wallmounted pc and 
decided:
Yeah...imma build something like this.
 
After maybe three weeks of sketching and figuring it
had evolved into a "simple" case...I dont know why it ended up beeing what it is now but
it just somehow did.
 
Honestly speaking it isn't finished yet so if you want to come along with my experiment I would be 
quite pleased.
 
First of all, I am a 23 year old student with literally no workshop or tools...so everything was build from scratch...
I had to buy all the tools like a drill, a saw, screwdrivers and so on.
But i did not waver and soldiered on.
 
Here she is...with my...case...and cable managment from my first pc
(Specs are listed on my profile)
 

Well...i know...its a little bit of an eyesore...but thats why i decided to build my own   (because screw logic )
 
 

The final sketch looked like this...(Sorry for no fancy renderings or gooogle sketchup models)
 
it kind of evolved during the building process but i had to do some adjustments and dumping the two loop plan was neccessary...would be overkill anyway for this setup
And now the fun started. I found a company which would cut all my pieces out of wood and acrylic and send it to me for i had no big saw and i wanted it to be as precise as possible.
I ordered some watercooling parts too because i needed everything in front of me for the dimensions and visualisation
 

The wooden pieces arrived
Why wood you may, completely correct ask, because it is the most affordable material and the one I am most comfortable working with.
 

getting an idea of how it is going to look
 
Then i went on and throwed a whole lot of money around to get the tools and all the little things i needed..
and instantly had a broken drill which i sent back to get it replaced, what left me playing with the stuff i already had laying around.
 

like those LTT Edition Noctua NF F12
 
 

aaaand another test fit
 
After recieving another ton of stuff and the drill, I began to work. It was a real challenge do do this in my room...
because i had nowhere else to go but it somhow worked...not brilliantly but it did the trick.
 
After that I made the commitment that my rig is not going to see another case until this thing is finished, by ripping out all the good stuff while waiting for additional deliveries
 

There it is...the crappy thing...never going to see the light of day
 
 
Now she sits on my desk waiting for a new case. 

 
Without further ado I went back to work and did a lot of test fitting, drilling and sawing.
 
My "workshop"

 
 
It was probably at this point where i dumped the second loop  because it would be to much of a hassle to hardpipe the whole thing with two loops and simply not justified especially looking at my bankaccount.
 



Drilling and rasping
 

my little touch of OCD
 

First steps and little bit of progress
 

more progress...
 
with this kind of results showing i was fired up to get it done.
 

firing her up for the first time with parts of the new case
 

now it is slowly becoming what i had invisioned it to be (not sure about the grammar here )
 

that was the point where she got her name
she is just too goddam big...but yeah...too late to stop now
 

trying to get some "glamshots"...not really working with a smartphone camera 
 
now the whole assembling and disassembling was a pain in the neck...and in the back...

 
 
and there where times where I simply was too dumb/lazy to read thoroughly what was required..like that time when I went full retard and bought a holesaw just to realize i couldnt use it with my drill because I needed a standing drill...like one of those big ones...well i did what was needed and pulled it of with my bare hands...damn that hurt

for a little bit of ventilation for the graphics card and the motherboard
 
time to go crazy with filler and let all the screws and screwups disapear

and for a smooth finish after sanding and before vinyl wrapping.
 
or i ordered the carbon vinyl...aaaand overdid it because it was in the middle of the night...now i have enough of that shit to cover my whole room...maybe not really but you get the point, do you.

thats like 9 squaremeters of vinyl...
  with that much material at disposal i went full moron on the vinyl wrapping but surprisingly never screwed up.
 


 
some pieces...and then
 
*BOOM* assemled and running...geezuz that blue RAM hurts my eyes...thats what you get for changing the coloursceme in the middle of the build

 
Well folks...thanks for coming along...and hopefully sticking around as this is still far from finished...she needs the watercooling loop finished...she needs a cablemod and fancy cablemanagment. 
The aluminum needs to be brushed and then reassembled...the bottom and the top need to be finished as well as replacing the RAM with somthing like dominator Platinum or colouring it...
and finally an GPU upgrade which is going to be watecooled as  I'm not going to do so with this GPU because i don't want to spend
120 bucks for watercooling a 970 when i know I'm going to upgrade it anyway with the upcoming pascal/polaris release. I forgot the red LED lighting.
 
I'll try to update this Build Log every time when there is progress.
 
 
 
Hello there,
 
nearly one month later I am back with a little more done to her.
 
first of all I helped myself with the stupid holesaw to drill two holes into the bottom plate for some fans. But this time I figured a way to do the job without 
killing my hands.

worked way better and easier...and ignore the markings...they where wrong and I was to lazy to erase them.
 


there they are...mounted and ready to go.
 
at this point in time my desk looks like this.

WAN Show ftw
 
With the rest of the watercooling stuff on the way I gave the aluminium brackets a brushed finish

brushed vs factory look                                                                                                       all ready and looking fine
 
and the top plate with the holes for the four radiator fans.


Topplate wrapped and assembled
 
Yeiiiii finally the  the Watercoolingstuff is complete and ready for my first ever watercooling expirience....an yes i know even Linus said that one should not start with a hard tubing loop but this build
simply isn't going to look good with soft tubing and my bit of OCD didnt allow it either.
With that in mind i decided to go for gold and try

Btw...this picture was taken after the whole loop was done so there are a few fittings and tubes missing 
 
I started with some easy bends to get used to the whole thing and did good for the first bends of my life and got really excited.

There where some screwups at first but i ignored them mostly because they where only hideous but not damaged or bent in the wrong way (like the one leading into the pump)
 
 
The following part probably needs a little bit of explanation. I was just recently enlightened by some videos i didnt watch before...that it doesn't matter in which order your components are located in the loop.
My loop was designed with the thought that it would be good if the coolant goes through a radiator before entering the next component...like this:
...Rad -> CPU -> Rad ->  GPU...
which hopefully explains the crazy bends i did there.
 
Without further ado...
lets go completely crazy with the tubing!

yeah i know...they are not the prettiest and straightest bends in the world but i am completely satisfied with how the turned out.
remeber....this is my first watercooled build...and at some point in time i will redo some of the bends but for now they suffice...
and i kinda like the unrefined look remembering me that nothing is perfect from the start.
 
Time to install the CPU block and do the rest of the loop...yeah...i ran out of money and wasnt able to fit the GPU block in my budget...
aaaand i couldnt wait 

         old cooler off ...                                                cleaning                                    new cooler on...dat excitement
 
now thats a look on every bend i had to do and every fitting that went into this stupid thing...fittings can really blow your budget

thats actually a lot...sheesh...my poor wallet
 

now filling her up for the first time...(that sounds a little bit wrong..
anyway)
 
aaaand there goes the red....of course i let her run for more than a day to look for leaks...(it isn't getting any better isn't it )

 
 
thats looking good i think...have some more pictures (i tried to do some kind of fancy pro looking photos )
 

 

ah...that inlet bend on the right of the CPU is getting reworked as soon as the GPU is getting its treatment.
 
now the whole Deskemperess in her glory...

 
 
Well folks...thanks again for checking out my build...this is it...at least for the time being because i really need to stop spending the money i had planned for my food...
no it is not that aweful but I really dont have enough to include the GPU at the moment but it'll happen in a little bit...meaning like one maybe two months.
Until then i will paint the RAM if i have the time and do some LED lighting. And if I am really bored...the cabelsleeving. 
Geezuz dat blue RAM looks super dumb...well i have to deal with it.
 
The best part of the whole thing is...every time i walk into my room I really enjoy the accomplishment standing there on my desk in all her glory.
And I really like her with all the mistakes, being big or small, I made because it is the first thing in a while i had the energy to finish.
 
And thanks for the kind words after the first part was done...that kept me going.
See you another time.
 
................
 
2017
 
Hey again...it's been  a while...geez its been nearly a year.
I thought I'd update the buildlog.
 
I did different things to my Red Queen.
New Hardware were the red RAM Sticks (Corsair Dominator 16 GB)
God they look good...but they are a little on the Orange side but im fine with it for now.
Coolermaster V850 PSU 
Bitfenix Custom Red cables
aand the goodness...
finally the EK waterblock for my GPU.
 
But first she got a new place to sit on and some lighting

 
few weeks later i started (what i thought would be the) final stage of building.
 
I added some ventilation holes because i had problems with the airtemperatures inside the case.
(Still learning )
 

 
Cablemanagment...well i tried

 
Looook now with new and fresh fluid

 
Well until the stupid Fluid changed color again...so i cleaned the whole system and tried my luck with pastel coolant from EK because i thought it should work as the Coolingparts are nearly all from EK.
 
disassembling and cleaning 

 
aaaaaaaaand there she is back together
 

That was last year....
 
the sad thing is...the fluids are changing color again...
and i have no idea whats wrong.
 
Better pictures following after another cleaning and fluid change.
 
well then...see you soon

I forgot one picture...
 

she is really big isn't she?